Outback Joe goes through a lot of trauma in his overstuffed life. This literal straw man gets tossed into some remote part of the Australian outback every year and waits for some kind of rescue. This usually comes by air, drones searching for him and taking him medicine, food, water, or some other necessity. That’s the Outback Challenge. One can see a condensed history of the competition from its inception in 2007 to today on Wikipedia, the entry including the different kinds of things Outback Joe needed for a mission to be successful. This year, however, competitors were supposed to bring back a reminder of their visit to Joe – a blood sample – a good trick from an inanimate …